Gain Staging - Gain Structure - Balance Tracks - SSL Mixer Series - Reason - LearnReason
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- www.learnreaso... In this video tutorial I show you how to Gain Stage to get your levels right and help your mix have a great beginning. Gain Staging is the first thing you do when you start to mix before any effects and it's rather easy but there are tons of people that for some reason make it difficult....In Reason I show you how easy it is to get a static mix via Gain Staging.
See Gain Staging used in a real world full mix of a song in my free Learn How To Mix series.
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Wow can’t believe this was 9 years ago! I’m just now getting back into Reason and this just put my mixing over the top! Thank you! This is EXACTLY what I needed!
Every now and then i come back to this vid to reset my mind about mixing again :)
Brilliant video! Finally someone teaching OLD school mixing tricks in a new school environment. If we were actually sitting at an SSL console we would do a lot of things differently then we do when we sit at a computer screen. This is REAL gain staging you are teaching and the fact that the GAIN knob is at the top of the mix channel is a sign that we should start there. But since we sit at a computer screen and we see the faders first at the bottom, we tend to start there instead. Thank you so much for this.
I'm glad you went over the control room. Most PH users don't know about it. I just discovered it!
Dan Deleon just like me
Everything I have just watched seamed so obvious it I have never done. I always looked at the controll room knob and though when will ever use this 🤔
Now I am always going to use it and my fader section is going to look alit different 😂
😌 Tbh I kinda feel dumb making beats 4 years in reason sleeping on the input gain knobs... so much wisdom in under 10 minutes! Gold!
I want to fucking hug this guy. Some people are great at getting to the point while helping a heap
This is a revelation. I speak for myself but seem to think a lot of self taught audio engineers have never fully learned the basics of SSL mixer. It clears up and enhances so many things for me. Thank you Matt!
this also has a major benefit of keeping your plugins from distorting giving you a cleaner focused mix
Best Reason tip I've found so far, much appreciated friend.
Reason 11 user here....what a great video. Just changed the way I've been working on reason, thanks man
Thank you so much, you change my life with this reason tip...10 years later!!!
its BETTER now than never. THANKS A LOT!! 😀🥰
I'm a musician not an engineer, but there's a lot of wisdom here. Thanks!
This was the part I had wrong until I saw this video.I have since spent the day watching your videos and came back to see this one twice to be sure I understood it. Thanks a lot for putting in the time to help others like me! I do appreaciate it a lot.
Amazing video. I always have this video open while I'm gain staging. Simple explanation and not as complicated as some other people.
Glad it was helpful!
This is so different from everything else I’ve been learning from various sources, but it makes so much sense and it’s so much clearer. It actually uses the gain knobs which I’ve never seen anyone teach before!
i am producing music on a professional level since2003, well this was the best explanation on youtube so far
I came back to this video and heard something I glossed over forgot ect ect and it's the answer to my issue thanks matt
If you teach a man to fish he can eat!! You are a GREAT Teacher!! There are 1000's of youtube videos but making a basic and simple video as you have makes a world of a difference. I will follow you more. knowledge is powerful and sharing that knowledge makes you more powerful!! some may say "oh that's basic stuff, I already know that " I say THANK YOU. and say Reason RULES. Keep up the good work SENSEI !!!!
this is how you handle a tutorial,a done deal
Just watched this for about the 10th time in however many years, as I've bought a new comp & I once again try to learn Reason. Excellent tutorial, very well explained, thanks!
I thought I knew my way around reason, but it turns out I didn't even know how to use the mixer! Thank you so much for posting these videos. I like your delivery style as well. :)
Broooooo you don't even know how much you helped me with this best tutorial I ever seen you should make more thankyou
Thank you and I am glad to help out, more videos are in the works.
I am BEYOND grateful!!! I am a self taught home studio guy. Been doing it for a while. I've been using Reason since version 4 on and off but switched to it as my main DAW with Reason 7. Not looking back!
I needed to say that this for me was probably the most helpful things I have come across for really making a difference to my understanding of the signal path. STOOOOKED!!!!
great Tutorial , I was going crazy trying to get my mixing right....thanks alot friend
Blown away by this tutorial !! I just used the GAIN staging technique. It was like magic! I've been through many videos and you my friend are by far are a very gifted teacher. No shxx bro. What a difference to my tracks. Back to being creative. Thank you
Thank you for an Awesome lesson ! This is pure gold. I cannot tell you how many gain staging videos, articles, blogs I’ve studied but none of them provided clarity in such a logical and easy to grasp manner. I’m not a Reasons user but this application is also applicable to Nuendo. Your teaching style is outstanding and I can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge with us. I was able to translate this to my hybrid setup as well. I’m now concentrating on your other “Learn to mix” series and am so looking forward to going through your site content.
Mannnnnn, I just used your technique on one of my mixes and the shit is night and day!!!!✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 THANK YOU MAN!!! New subscriber here!!!
Wanted to say thank you! I have learned more from just a few of your videos than dozens of others all put together. Your videos and style of teaching are clear and to the point. I hope you can find time to make more videos because they are incredibly helpful and appreciated by many of us.
Huge help. This is something that I couldnt quite grasp and remained something of a mystery for me but this gave me clarity. Thankyou!
Amazing tutorial...so simple and straight to the point.IVe wondered this stuff for years without even knowing how to ask the proper questions.Thanks!!!
My mixes sound so much better now!!!!thank you for this😀😀😀😀😀😀
I've been referencing this video for years now. So happy I found this channel! Hope too see new content!
Thanks Matt. Definitely will help my mixes sound even better. I knew about the DB's levels in terms of where I should be but I never knew that the 'input gains' were the key to keeping things as loud as possible w/out moving the faders. I guess when you think about the word 'fader' and not 'gain or volume' makes perfect sense. Switching the routing from master control to control room is definitely I haven't seen before but is now in my mixing routine. I am or should I say was one of those people whose always hitting the reset button on the master fader until I get it right. Big time saver with that as well. Keep the tutorials coming.
Looking forward to giving this a shot. Always struggled with later stages of a track and just not being able make a mix clear because everything's being pushed to extremes with poor techniques.
I love you and I hate you. This SSL mixer series has me going back to all my old label releases RNS files, which were all on done on the OLD OLD reason mixer and I'm rewiring them all so I can do your magic. God bless this channel dude!
Hi mat just a short message to say thank-you for all you do in learnreason you tube tuts. i watch a lot of you videos and you've helped me massively...........thanks and keep up the great work.
This was one of the most useful tutorials I've seen. Made a big difference for me.
I wish I had come across this video earlier. It all makes sense and will make it a lot easier to keep a mix leveled.
You are a great teacher. Thank you so much for your videos.
Like it,started with Reason5 when it was released and after a long heitas,now use reason 12 ...new to the mixer and enjoyed watching it his video.🙏🏾
Wow! Finally- Someone breaks it down so simple. I finally got it. Thank you so much. Damn...and this was from 2013. In all the videos I watched on YT this is the best explanation.
Glad it helped you out. Make sure to stop by our website, the Pro Mixing Forum is there. www.learnreason.com
I am not sure why ALL the tracks need to be gain staged at -10. I thought only the loudest of them (as reference) should be at -10. If all of them are at -10 then all the tracks will sound at the same volume. *confused
found this video in 2022, still very useful.
Thank you!!!! This is THE BEST advice on gain staging EVER and yet sooo simple and to the point. A masterpiece! I have been working on this track and I am going back to redo the mixing because my gain staging was obviously wrong.
Glad it was helpful!
Check out my Learn How To Mix series tons more good stuff. czcams.com/video/kMYbTcUILvM/video.html
Jesus..... Now thats how you teach something.... great instruction
Thank you for this. This will surely help me out when mixing my songs from now on. Once again thank you!
Great info!!!
Very useful video! We tend to forget that reason emulates a real studio mixer here.
Awesome tutorial. Made me reset my thinking and approach to mixing. Thank you!!!
I never knew about this, but have started to use it and it makes a total difference.
Glad it helped you out, check my Learn How To Mix series I go in depth into mixing using this method and others.
Wow! this was extremely helpful information, even if it doesnt improve my mixes (which it will), it'll definitely keep me from having to hit the reset button all the time, like i have been doing.
So happy I found this
Much thanks
So well done
Probably the most effective instruction on the subject matter
Ur great man 💪🎧🎧🎧🎧🎵🎵🎵🎵,thanx a lot for this usefull info.coz i had been struggling hard wit man headroom but now solved n I wonder y ma teacher never say/show this in a mix/mastering class.
good on you from Australia
i really appreciate all your videos bro you helped me sooooooo much its crazy
this video changed my life. thank u
Mind. Blown.
I was using faders and really never got a good mix. 🤣🤣. Thank you. Now my mixes are improving. ❤️
Come check out our Pro Mixing Forum www.learnreason.com
This video was incredibly helpful very much appreciated
OH. MY. GOD. I've been doing it wrong for YEARS and wondering my my mixes sound like crap, especially in my car. Thank you so much. I have been deluding myself to thing that one DAW sounds better than another. The problem was my lack of understanding what the faders are for.
Glad I could help you out. You might want to watch the whole mixer series and then watch my Learn How To Mix series it will open your mind up to a whole new world of mixing a world all the pros have been in for ever and it is so dam easy.
Love these videos very good excited
Great tutorial man!!!
Definitely the best(and easiest)video on gain staging. I do have a question though. Do you ever adjust volume controls on the instruments or insert effects or just the gain knob on the mixer?
Write you music and when you are done you do a Gain Stage to start mixing. I show all this in depth in my mixing series.
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Your videos are really really helpful !!! Especially this one !
thanks so much this was so helpful
I wish I saw this video long time ago. Huge help! Thanks for making this
GbjvC Glad to hear that. Make sure to check out my Learn How To Mix tutorial series where I put this into a read mix, way more than this tutorial could every show.
I needed that 101. Nice.
Instant improvement on my mix. Thank you so much
Just found out about gain staging. Been working in Protools for many years. Just made the switch to Reason
Big wow brother specially for us noobs ! Lol great work
Watched this before (a few times!) So brilliantly presented thanks Matt °¬)
This is a great video. Excellent instruction. Thank you.
wow, you completely opened my eyes to something i would have never thought of.. Thanks! Keep up the good work on these videos! Very helpful.
video motivated me . thx . good mix between teacher and `hey ! every knob ! evry fader ! is made by god ! ` !
thanks for sharing
yes, this was a help. it told me exactly what I needed to know. many thanks
You took my anxiety away LOL facts
Great Tutorial, now it begins
Had I had this lesson back when using in Reason 3.0 things might be so different😂.
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much MORE PLEASE
Thank you, very good demonstration of what we can do with gain staging...
Cheers
I wish I had watched this video earlier 😭 All videos about gain staging tell that you have to set the input level to -18 dBFS because they are in the digital domain - and I didn’t think of the SSL as a virtual analog mixer, so it’s not dBFS but dBVU 🤦🏻 That explains how the compressors behave... 🤦🏻 and please don’t tell me that I can clearly see it on the channel meters, please... don’t. I‘m having a good laugh here. Thanks, Matt - you‘re an eye opener 👌😂
Awesome video Matt simple explanation and to the point will implement this in my mixes cheers dude
Glad it helped you out. Make sure to stop by our website, the Pro Mixing Forum is there. www.learnreason.com
Thanks so much, clear explanation. I am new to mixing. I am what you described as the one who keeps moving faders to find volume. 😉
I haven’t seen this video before, but somewhat it confirmed what I noticed when I did a live mixing of 4 piece band instruments plus 3 singers (1 lead, 2 backup). I gain staged properly, watching the LED meter, despite the noisy environment I don’t hear them clearly but I kept an eye on peak meter. After I finished gain staging, I’m surprised that there was almost no need to touch the faders because they sound okay already.. or course not a perfect live mix but I know what I’m hearing was within the ballpark of balance. First, I felt insecure I thought something’s wrong because my faders are all in zero but how come they sounded balance already 😆
In all mixing you must get the tracks balanced and from there you start carving out each element on each track. Make sure to stop by our website, the Pro Mixing Forum is there. www.learnreason.com
Nice very helpful.....
GREAT GREAT GREAT VIDEO
Thanks!
EXCELLENT VIDEO JUST LEARNED SOMETHING NEW THANK YOU
Thank you so much, this is going to improve the quality of my music a lot I hope. :)
Love this
Explained really well..thankyou man
Thanks Bro!
Definitely a great tip!
I knew nothing about this, I was doing everything wrong.
This is amazing. Thank you!
Thank you for this tutorial!
Obviously you dont have to rewire to control room out if your hardware has level controls. Just turn up or down as you go. Not sure about the rest. I will try it but cutting on eq is always best for volume of end mix for me.
This is true Micky but there are many that maybe do not have hardware that can to that. I have hardware that can but still use the Control Room out and of course switch it back when exporting. We are taking about Setting and Maintaining Gain Stage, EQ should always came after you set your static mix so yes EQ are great in he mix.
Feel like I woke up from the Matrix with this fader info :D
Nice
Thanks Matt....
Thank you, Sir. Now I won't be chasing my tail with levels. I feel you should have mentioned to start at the source. For example, not recording too hot and also lowering insert volumes first.
I will be doing other videos on those subjects, I am trying to make the videos not to long and easy to follow.
thanks man!
Excellent!